Improvement in covers for cooking-utensils



f -back into the vessel beneath.

` 'nella @eine @me femm..

LEMAN nf OVITT, or BROOKLYN VILLAGE, "01110.

' `Letters Patent No. 107,803, dated September27, 1870.

IMPRVENIENI' IN COVERS FOR COOKING-UTENSILS. i

The Schedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making part of the same 'Beit known that I, Loman B. (`)vrnalr,4 of Brooklyn village, in the'eountyfof Cuyahoga and Statepf Ohio,

. have inventeda new andirnprovedMode of Preventing the Escape 'of Steam and Odors from Cooking- Vessels; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full `and exact description, to wit:

The `nature of my invention consists in so constructing covers of tin or othermetal for cooking-vessels as l 'to prevent the escapeof steam or smell therefrom, and also to 'economize the fuel reqnired'foi' cooking. 7

' To enableothers skilledin the art to make and use l my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation. Y l

I construct my covers as follows: 1 I l The size and height are proportioned to the size o vessel nsedbeneath;

The topA, shownin `the accompanying drawing, is

, of tin, in the shape of an inverted cone, with the point in the center, from which the condensed 'steam falls The sides'are in shape of a hollow cylinder, B, and

firmly fastened to the top A b'y rolling, soldering, or otherwise, high enough to reach above the top of the vessel beneath, and of sufficient diameter to leave a space between -it and the said vessel beneath. s

When heat is applied, thecover being in place, the

heat is retained and intensified by reflection from the sidesA ofthe said cover, the steam is condensed upon the top, and falls back into the vessel beneath, or, descending, comes in contact with the heatedv surface ofthe stove, and is in part decomposed or absorbed, and the balance, in consequence of the augmented heat, reaseends to be condensed, as before, upon the top of the cover.

What I claim as my invention, and desire tosecure l by Letters Patent, is-- The application to vessels used for cooking, Ste., of covers of' tin orethen metal, as hereinbefore described, and for `the purposes 'set'forth.

'LUMAN B. OVIATT. Witnesses: (11B. GALENTINE,

O. W; Y'. GALENTINE. 

